disability, accessibility, and a certain acronym comon in tech (a11y) Show more

hi we just wanna make a quick post about "a11y"for people who don't know, it's supposed to mean "accessibility" because it's the first letter, the number of letters in the middle, and then the last letter

the fact that literally every time we post that we get people going "ohh" is kinda a problem with the acronym

it's just not very accessible and unless you seriously need brevity in char counts, it's not great to use alone!

disability, accessibility, and a certain acronym comon in tech (a11y) Show more

it's really hard to read as anything but "ally" which, until you know what it means, reads like this self-congratulatory "i'm an ally!" thing

even if you know the format of first letter/number in the middle/last letter, good luck knowing the number of characters in a word (especially if you struggle to count them out to make the association for any reason)